ISO/IEC 8859-2:1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 2: Latin alphabet No. 2, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987. It is informally referred to as "Latin-2". It is generally intended for Central or "Eastern European" languages that are written in the Latin script. Note that ISO/IEC 8859-2 is very different from code page 852 (MS-DOS Latin 2, PC Latin 2) which is also referred to as "Latin-2" in Czech and Slovak regions. Almost half the use of the encoding is for Polish, and it's the main legacy encoding for Polish, while virtually all use of it has been replaced by UTF-8 (on the web).
ISO-8859-2 is the IANA preferred charset name for this standard when supplemented with the C0 and C1 control codes from ISO/IEC 6429. Less than 0.04% of all web pages use ISO-8859-2 as of October 2022. Microsoft has assigned code page 28592 a.k.a. Windows-28592 to ISO-8859-2 in Windows. IBM assigned code page 912 to ISO 8859-2, until that code page was extended in 1999. Code page 1111 is similar, but replaces byte B0 ° (degree sign) with U+02DA ˚ (ring above).
Windows-1250 is similar to ISO-8859-2 and has all the printable characters it has and more. However a few of them are rearranged (unlike Windows-1252, which keeps all printable characters from ISO-8859-1 in the same place).
Language coverage
These code values can be used for the following languages:
- Albanian
- Bosnian
- Croatian
- Czech
- Finnish7
- German8
- Hungarian
- Polish
- Romanian9
- Rotokas
- Serbian Latin
- Slovak
- Slovene
- Upper Sorbian
- Lower Sorbian
- Turkmen
Code page layout
Differences from ISO-8859-1 have the Unicode code point number underneath.
ISO/IEC 8859-2 (Latin-2)| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| 0x | ||||||||||||||||
| 1x | ||||||||||||||||
| 2x | SP | ! | " | # | $ | % | & | ' | ( | ) | * | + | , | - | . | / |
| 3x | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | : | ; | < | = | > | ? |
| 4x | @ | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O |
| 5x | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | [ | \ | ] | ^ | _ |
| 6x | ` | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o |
| 7x | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z | { | | | } | ~ | |
| 8x | ||||||||||||||||
| 9x | ||||||||||||||||
| Ax | NBSP | Ą0104 | ˘02D8 | Ł0141 | ¤ | Ľ013D | Ś015A | § | ¨ | Š0160 | Ş015E | Ť0164 | Ź0179 | SHY | Ž017D | Ż017B |
| Bx | ° | ą0105 | ˛02DB | ł0142 | ´ | ľ013E | ś015B | ˇ02C7 | ¸ | š0161 | ş015F | ť0165 | ź017A | ˝02DD | ž017E | ż017C |
| Cx | Ŕ0154 | Á | Â | Ă0102 | Ä | Ĺ0139 | Ć0106 | Ç | Č010C | É | Ę0118 | Ë | Ě011A | Í | Î | Ď010E |
| Dx | Đ0110 | Ń0143 | Ň0147 | Ó | Ô | Ő0150 | Ö | × | Ř0158 | Ů016E | Ú | Ű0170 | Ü | Ý | Ţ0162 | ß |
| Ex | ŕ0155 | á | â | ă0103 | ä | ĺ013A | ć0107 | ç | č010D | é | ę0119 | ë | ě011B | í | î | ď010F |
| Fx | đ0111 | ń0144 | ň0148 | ó | ô | ő0151 | ö | ÷ | ř0159 | ů016F | ú | ű0171 | ü | ý | ţ0163 | ˙02D9 |
See also
External links
- ISO/IEC 8859-2:1999
- Standard ECMA-94: 8-Bit Single Byte Coded Graphic Character Sets - Latin Alphabets No. 1 to No. 4 2nd edition (June 1986)
- ISO-IR 101 Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet No.2 (February 1, 1986)
- ISO 8859-2 (Latin 2) Resources
References
"Microsoft Outlook Message Encodings". 10 January 2017. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179149(v=office.12).aspx ↩
"The Czech and Slovak Character Encoding Mess Explained". luki.sdf-eu.org. Retrieved 2022-02-27. http://luki.sdf-eu.org/txt/cs-encodings-faq.html#pcl2 ↩
"Usage Statistics and Market Share of ISO-8859-2 for Websites, October 2022". w3techs.com. Retrieved 2022-10-23. https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/en-iso885902 ↩
"Historical trends in the usage statistics of character encodings for websites, February 2022". https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/character_encoding ↩
"Icu-data/Charset/Data/XML/Ibm-912_P100-1995.XML at main · unicode-org/Icu-data". GitHub. https://github.com/unicode-org/icu-data/blob/main/charset/data/xml/ibm-912_P100-1995.xml ↩
"Icu-data/Charset/Data/Ucm/Ibm-912_P100-1999.ucm at main · unicode-org/Icu-data". GitHub. https://github.com/unicode-org/icu-data/blob/main/charset/data/ucm/ibm-912_P100-1999.ucm ↩
The missing letter Å is officially a part of the Finnish alphabet, however it has no native use and its usage is limited to foreign names only. /wiki/%C3%85 ↩
In 2017, the Council for German Orthography officially added a capital ẞ, but is not actually required as SS can be used instead. /wiki/Council_for_German_Orthography ↩
This character set unifies Ș and Ț (S,T with commas below) with Ş and Ţ (S, T with cedillas), as did virtually all other character sets including Microsoft's Windows-1250 and the first version of Unicode. Unicode subsequently disunified them however, this complicated processing of Romanian data; pre-existing data and input methods would still contain the older cedilla codepoints, complicating text searching.[citation needed] /wiki/%C8%98 ↩